crab apple 
ˈcrab apple [crab apple crab apples] BrE NAmE noun a tree that produces fruit like small hard sour apples, also called crab apples •crab-apple jelly Word Origin: late Middle English: crab perhaps an alteration (influenced by ↑crab or ↑crabbed) of Scots and northern English scrab, in the same sense, probably of Scandinavian origin.
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